luna and her lamb
Her other lamb died. On Passover of all days.
Fine. But I wasn't about to have more than one 'sacrificial lamb' in one weekend,
particularly one who we can someday breed.
If I could have my way I wasn't going wake up to another dead lamb,
particularly not on Easter morning.
It's one thing to eat leg of lamb on Easter, a whole other thing to let one just die.
And so, that evening I spent a few hours bundled up out in the barn, sitting, watching, trying to see if she was latching on and getting any milk from her mama, checking her teats to see if she even had any milk, trying to coax milk down this little lamb's throat. Reading. Drinking a beer, too.
We've been supplement feeding her since. So much for no bottle lambs this year.
luna and her lamb
Her other lamb died. On Passover of all days.
Fine. But I wasn't about to have more than one 'sacrificial lamb' in one weekend,
particularly one who we can someday breed.
If I could have my way I wasn't going wake up to another dead lamb,
particularly not on Easter morning.
It's one thing to eat leg of lamb on Easter, a whole other thing to let one just die.
And so, that evening I spent a few hours bundled up out in the barn, sitting, watching, trying to see if she was latching on and getting any milk from her mama, checking her teats to see if she even had any milk, trying to coax milk down this little lamb's throat. Reading. Drinking a beer, too.
We've been supplement feeding her since. So much for no bottle lambs this year.